St. Paul daily globe., 1887-11-07
AT THE ZENITH CITY.
Arrivals Of Equipments for the New
Ship Yard.
A SCHOONER LONG OVERDUE
Letting Of a Big Dredging Contract
Various Matters Men
toned.

/. DULUTH, Mimi, Nov. 6.-The pro-
peller Dean Richmond. now unloading
at this port, brought up from Sarnia
. large number of shears, plates
, and other iron and steel equipment for
! McDougall's shipyard. Work will COM
! mence in a few days on building the
/ first steel vessel ever built on Lake
Superior, which will be constructed
I cigar shape, with turtle-back decks.
LONG OVERDUE.
Considerable anxiety is felt here over
the non-arrival of the schooner Seaman,
which passed Sault Ste. Marie Oct. 2S,
coal laden, for this port. She should
have been here six days ago. She is a
very old craft, having been built iii
1S4S, rebuilt in 1868 and repaired i'll 1883.
BIG IMPROVEMENTS.
Williams, Upham x Co. have secured
the contract for dredging the channel OF
the st. Louis river, near the st. Paul IL
Duluth bridge, and the work is to be
completed this fall. Its value is $50, ,000.
The seasons improvements and work
now in progress by the Duluth Gas and
Water company will aggregate nearly
100000.
MERELY MENTIONED.
Among the papers lately filed with the reg
lister of deeds was conveyance from the
United States of America to John B. Warren,
given under the seventh clause of the second
article of the treaty with the Chippewas, OF
Lake Superior and the Mississippi valley,
dated Sept 30. 1854. Under that treaty 1t
was provided that each head of a family or
single person over twenty-one years old, OF
the mixed blood and belonging to the tribes
alluded to, was entitled to eighty acres of
land to be selected under the direction of the
president.
Maj. A. N. Seip. whose recent domestic
troubles were first made known in the GLOBE,
has gone to Washington and will make that
city his permanent home. He is very wealthy
and gave his late wife 100000 worth of
property and cash when the decree of divorce
was granted few days ago. Ma. Seip is a
and has entertained him in Duluth on the
occasion of his several visits here.
The contractors on the Spalding house
claim that the delay of Carnegie, the big iron
manufactures, in furnishing the girders,
trusses and other work has caused them a
loss of several thousand dollars. The iron
work for the seventh floor is all here, while
the second floor requisition is not half filed.
Architect j. j. Egan is here watching the
work.
County Attorney Sherwood has commenced
vigorous war against the dives at Tower,
which have been progressing toward the un-
desirable reputation of the Hurley dance
houses. They will be driven from the
county.
A. NJ. Miller will erect large brick and
the new Spalding house. Work will be com
menced in the spring. The cost Of the block
is said to be 100000.
Bank clearances for the week just closed
were So, 1854, 33S, the best showing ever
made, and one which will force Duluth up
cities.
The deal for the transfer of the Powder
River Cattle companys stock yard at Supe-
rior to Mayor Suthphin was concluded yes
,terday. Price, $4,000.
The brick work on the Munger & Marlcell
warehouses is finished, and three steam
boats have already unloaded cargoes there
for the new hardware firm.
e The ferry boat Estelle has been laid up for
the winter, the Hattie Lloyd taking her place
ON the West Superior and Duluth run.
w. r. Travers. one of the famous Wall
street brokers, is still in Duluth making a
number of investments.
The name of the Swede who was drowned
sat Tower yesterday was Joseph Penquist,
from Ephraim Wis.
DR.. and Mrs. Collins received slight injuries
yesterday by being thrown from their car
.riage ip a runaway.
The bids for the new issue of Duluth city
bonds will be opened at the council meeting
tomorrow.
Work on the building of the American
Mechanical Improvement company has
begun.
w. H. Jackson denies that he is candi-
date for the Office of mayor.
The cable railway project, up the hill, is
being agitated again.
s. H.,RothermeI has returned from Chi
cago.
W. E. Lucas and wife arrived home to-day
HARRIsoN-s REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE
Harrison's real estate exchange has over
$50, 900 inside property in Superior. Can
be bought at one-third of its real value, as it
must he sold Hotel ST I,Ouis huildinp